Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 5/7/2025 

This policy explains the rights of California residents regarding the collection, use, sale, and sharing of their personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). We may update and make changes to this policy, so we encourage you to review it periodically. 

1. Key Terms. It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:

We, us, our Cohen Ventures, Inc., dba Energy Solutions 
Our representative [email protected] 
Personal information Any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular consumer or household. 

 

2. Personal Information We Collect About You. In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories and specific types of consumer personal information: 

Categories of Personal Information Specific Types of Personal Information Collected 
Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, unique personal identifier, email address, or other similar identifiers) Name, email address, telephone number, and/or postal address 
Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, their name. Name, email address, telephone number, and/or postal address 
Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Website, application, or advertisement) Information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our website, and usage details. 

 

3. How Your Personal Information is Collected. We collect most of this personal information directly from you—in person, by telephone, text or email, and via our website. However, we may also collect information from the following categories of sources: 

  • Publicly accessible sources (e.g., property records); 
  • Third party (e.g., third parties that help us update, expand, and analyze our records, identify new customers, or prevent or detect fraud.); 
  • Cookies on our website; 
  • Automated information collection; 
  • Our IT systems, including: 
  • Automated monitoring of our websites and other technical systems, such as our communications systems, email and instant messaging systems. 

 

4. Why We Use Your Personal Information. We collect consumer personal information for the following business purposes:

  • To contact you about your project submission or idea 
  • To evaluate submissions through our scanning and screening process to ensure it is an appropriate fit for the CalNEXT portfolio and to ensure there are no potential conflicts of interest 
  • Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, verifying customer information, or providing similar services on behalf of the business or service provider; 
  • To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; 
  • Where you have given consent. 

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. 

The table below explains what we use (process) your personal information for and our reasons for doing so: 

What we use your personal information for Our reasons 
To provide products and/or services to you For the performance of our services or to take steps at your request 
To prevent and detect fraud against you or Cohen Ventures, Inc., dba Energy Solutions For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to minimize fraud that could be damaging for us and for you 
Ensuring business policies are adhered to, e.g., policies covering security and internet use For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to make sure we are following our own internal procedures so we can deliver the best service to you 
Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you 
Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information 

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information 

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations 

Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g., in relation to [our financial performance, customer base, product range or other efficiency measures] For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price 
Updating and enhancing customer records 

For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract 

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations 

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g., making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products 

 

5. Who We Share Your Personal Information With. In the preceding 12 months, we have shared consumers’ personal information with:

  • Service providers we use to help deliver our products and services to you 
  • Third parties approved by you, including social media sites you choose to link your account to or third-party payment providers;

We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers, contractors, and third parties to ensure they can only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you.  

We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. 

We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. We will typically anonymize information, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations. 

We will not share your personal information with any other third party. 

 

6. Categories of Personal Information We Shared. In the preceding 12 months, we have shared the following categories of personal information: 

  • Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers); 
  • Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, their name, address, and telephone number; 
  • Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies); 
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Website, application, or advertisement);

 

7. Categories of Personal Information We Disclosed for a Business Purpose. In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:  

  • Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, email address, or other similar identifiers); 
  • Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, their name, address, and telephone number; 
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Website, application, or advertisement);

     

8. How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept. We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary: 

  • To respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf; 
  • To show that we treated you fairly; or 
  • To keep records required by law.

We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.  

When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it. 

 

9. Your Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge: 

Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You 

You have the right to know, and request disclosure of: 

  • The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including sensitive personal information; 
  • The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; 
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information; 
  • The categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, if any; and 
  • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Please note that we are not required to:  

  • Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained; 
  • Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or 
  • Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period. 
Disclosure of Personal Information Sold, Shared, or Disclosed for a Business Purpose 

In connection with any personal information we may sell, share, or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know: 

  • The categories of personal information about you that we sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared; and 
  • The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose.
     

You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information or sharing of your personal information for targeted behavioral advertising. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, we will refrain from selling or sharing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale or sharing of your personal information.

To opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, please email [email protected] or call 888-560-2422.

Right to Deletion 

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will: 

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and 
  • Direct any service providers or contractors to delete your personal information from their records. 
  • Direct third parties to whom the business has sold or shared your personal information to delete your personal information unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is reasonably necessary to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us; 
  • Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes; 
  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; 
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law; 
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; 
  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; 
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; 
  • Comply with an existing legal obligation; or 
  • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information. 
Right of Correction If we maintain inaccurate personal information about you, you have the right to request us to correct that inaccurate personal information. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information. 
Protection Against Retaliation  

You have the right to not be retaliated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA/CPRA. This means we cannot, among other things: 

  • Deny goods or services to you; 
  • Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties; 
  • Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or 
  • Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Please note that we may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of [goods and/or services] to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your personal information. We may also offer loyalty, rewards, premium features, discounts, or club card programs consistent with these rights or payments as compensation, for the collection of personal information, the sale of personal information, or the retention of personal information. 

 

10. How to Exercise Your Rights. If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, you can do so by emailing [email protected]. You may also call us at 888-560-2422. 

Please note that you may only make a CCPA/CPRA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period. 

If you choose to contact us directly by email or phone, you will need to provide us with: 

  • Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address and customer or matter reference number); 
  • Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and 
  • A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.

We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf. 

Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.